Not really. You can play the game for free and you can download the game for free, but the game actually has a price if you go to a store...
Not to mention the fact that you could count the subscription fee as the price of the game since F2P do not get access to the complete features of the game...

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They've painted themselves in a corner. They can't drastically reduce the costs without pissing off the 4 people who bought them at an arm and a leg.

Sure they can. Early adapters pay more. I paid $50 for this game at retail. Now it's a free download. Even if I find one of those mystical retail boxes again, they only cost $10-15.

I also bought the DDE. It cost me $5. I don't remember what it cost originally, but it was more than $5.

I paid $10 for RotHC. That's free now.

Items get marked down in the CM all the time.

Adjustments happen. Things aren't set in stone once they are implemented. If this scheme proves unpopular, they will either stop doing it, or drop prices. If it has worked well for them, we will know, because they will offer the deal again later at the same price.

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Not really. You can play the game for free and you can download the game for free, but the game actually has a price if you go to a store...
Not to mention the fact that you could count the subscription fee as the price of the game since F2P do not get access to the complete features of the game...

There is no excuse for any single use item to ever cost more than a month's subscription.

Anyone who pays $10 or $20 for a single use item is hastening the death of TOR and feeding the rise of TOR:The Cash Shop Menace.

By comparison, with the gold conversion rate in GW2, a black or white dye(both colors are similarly rare when compared with SWTOR) is about 50 cents, a single use consumable, but unlocks that color for repeated use in a palette on that character that used it into perpetuity.

Oh, and you could actually obtain it in game as a random drop or thru crafting, though very rare.

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